Books by Samuel Scheffler

The author is Samuel Scheffler, and the subtitle is The Mysteries of Time and the Goods of Attachment .  He is one of America’s leading philosophers, and proves it once again here.

4. Samuel Scheffler, Death & the Afterlife , with commentaries from other famous philosophers at the back.  The bottom line: through the careful use of thought experiments, we can infer that we care about the impersonal future more than we might think.  Scheffler is still getting better and deeper as a philosopher.  This Thomas Nagel review of the book is gated, but even the first few (ungated) paragraphs are worth reading.